Stepping away from the daily events of COP17 in Durban, South Africa on December 4, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, executive director of the Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Po...

Breaks between the Bolivian government and some indigenous organizations that once threw their support behind President Evo Morales, the country’s first indigenous President, are d...

Dominicans of Taino heritage will no longer be able to indicate their ethnicity on their national ID card if a new electoral law goes into effect...

Two Indian leaders from the Embera community in Colombia were killed by the illegally armed group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc)...

A hit squad of some 40 masked gunmen on November 18 executed a cacique or traditional leader of Brazil’s Kaiowa-Guarani people...

The contemporary world is much more politically complex than present political theory or thought suggests...

On a recent visit to Paraguay , Kyung-wha Kang, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, noted that the government has made progress to protect and respect Indigenous Peoples’...

In a case reminiscent of the movie Avatar, a tree symbolic to the Cofán people of southern Colombia is threatened by construction of a military base...

The epidemic of witchcraft hysteria which broke out in Salem, Massachusetts at the end of the 17 th century was as virulent as the scourge of smallpox that had decimated the Indige...

This week hundreds of indigenous Bolivians returned home after successfully pushing the government of President Evo Morales to ban a highway that would have bisected the National P...